RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 475 (SB 528) 2018 Regular Session LaFleur
Prior law provided that a supervising physician may supervise up to four physician assistants.
New law increases the number of physician assistants a primary supervising physician can
supervise from four to eight.
Prior law provided that a graduate physician assistant must have 500 clinical hours of
training prior to application for prescriptive authority.
New law provides that to be eligible to apply for prescriptive authority the physician assistant
shall have 500 clinical training hours prior to graduation from an approved physician
assistant education program, hold an active unrestricted license from LSBME, be authorized
to prescribe by a supervising physician, and apply for a controlled dangerous substance
license from the LSBP, if the physician assistant intends to control CDSs.
New law prohibits LSBME from imposing additional prescription authority qualifications
through administrative rulemaking.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 37:1360.23(G) and 1360.31(C)(2))